On Thursday around lunchtime – as the world was digesting the full extent of Donald Trump’s tariff madness – former US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen looked like a visitor in a far-off land.

Yellen served as head of Treasury during all four years of the Biden administration, and before that was Fed chair from 2014-18. She was the first woman to hold the respective posts. Prior to ...

Janet Yellen signs banknotes at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing’s Western Currency Facility in Fort Worth, Texas in 2022. Treasury secretary at the time, Yellen’s was the first female ...

China announced countermeasures by raising tariffs on U.S. goods from 84% to 125% starting Saturday.

At a Cabinet meeting, Trump declined to rule out extending the 90-day tariff pause and said he hadn't yet seen Tuesday's ...

The fast-worsening trade war between the United States and China — the planet’s premier geopolitical powers, whose economies ...

After Trump announced the 90-day tariff reprieve on Wednesday, the S&P 500 surged 9.5 per cent, the largest one-day ...

While Trump's 90-day pause on his levies for most countries helped global markets, the tiff between China and the US over the ...